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“Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.”

Quote by Edna Ferber

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

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Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

This compilation includes 'Show Boat', a story set in the world of riverboat performers; 'So Big', a novel about a woman's struggle for self-fulfillment; and 'Cimarron', a tale of a cowboy's journey to success and the American Dream. more

Author

Edna Ferber was an American novelist renowned for her rich imagination and profound social insight. Her works often feature female protagonists, exploring the status and roles of women in society. Her representative works include 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Anna Karenina'. more

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“here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.”

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Book:Giant

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“When a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.”

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“Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.”

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Book:Gigolo

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“The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.”

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“If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.”

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“writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.”

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“I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.”

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“A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.”

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